Little Ears are Listening

The other night I was reading to Kailey before bed. LJ came in and wanted to read with us. He picked up her little, pink Bible and asked me to read from that. I think he was a little enthralled that something so tiny could be the same thing as Daddy's big Bible. He was moving around, making noise, avoiding Kailey's kicks with all three of us crammed in the rocking chair, and I wasn't sure he was hearing a thing I was saying. But, in my mommy way, I was talking about the Bible being God's Word and how He talks to us through it and He also talks to us in our hearts. I ended with something (I'm sure very profound and deep) about listening for God and then read him the story of Baby Jesus from Luke. I hadn't thought much more about it until the next day when LJ was helping me with a project. We have a lot of fun, alternative things we are doing right now to help him focus on God's power over fear and evil to balance out the constant reminders this month of what we can fear in this world. He is very sensitive to "the scary guys" everywhere we go the past few weeks and so our theme for the month is "No Fear!" Anyway, we were working on one of those projects and I mentioned something about Bible verses and started to walk down the stairs. He picked up the piece of paper I had been looking at while talking about the verses and held it to his chest. Then he said, "My heart!" I said, "What?" He said, "My heart, God talks to me in my heart. And to Mommy, and Daddy, and Kailey." As he, in his tiny way, tried to repeat back to me what I had said the night before I was overcome with the seriousness of my job as a mom. Every moment can be redeemed for our Father's glory. Little hearts and spirits are ready and we only have so much time during these formative years when they are so open to God's voice. Before His whispers start to be drowned out by the world and what it expects of and for them. I am so glad to know that I do not have to do this alone and that the Holy Spirit is already beginning His work in them, prompting them, putting "eternity in their hearts" so that they can begin crying out for God before they even have the words to do it! They are listening; are we talking?